Aleje, AL-1, Castilla (Devonian of Spain)

Where: Castilla-León, Spain (42.8° N, 5.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° S, 22.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Portilla Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• thickness 1.5 m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; floatstone and bindstone

• floatstone (60Vol%)and bindstone (40Vol%)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: I. Méndez-Bedia, F. Soto, and E. Fernández-Martínez. 1994. Devonian reef types in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain) and their faunal composition. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 172(2):161-183 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80584: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 28.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Heliophyllum collected from the floatstone
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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
Heliophyllum sp.
Heliophyllum sp. Hall 1846 horn coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Trupetostroma ? sp.
Trupetostroma ? sp. Parks 1936 stromatoporoid sponge